The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Making the American Religious Fringe
Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions...
Mother Worship
Theme and Variations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The authors identify the general symbol of the "Mother Goddess" as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form or function of the symbol in specific sociocultural settings. Although the subject is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, the authors...
by Karen G. Ruffle
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual mourning assemblies held on 7 Muharram to commemorate...
by Arnold Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Although the varying attitudes toward the English crown and the order of English society were central to the differences between the loyalists and the militants, disagreements involved many questions other than political ones, including the role of the Jesuits in the English mission and the nature...
American Growth and the Balance of Payments, 1820-1913
A Study of the Long Swing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The basic purpose of Williamson's study is to determine whether the Kuznets cycles, or long swings in the domestic economy, have had any consistent effect on U. S. foreign trade and, as a result, on the nation's balance-of-payments position. The author has chosen the period from 1820 to 1913 and has...
Managing Privacy
Information Technology and Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The ongoing revolution in electronic information technology raises critical questions about our right to privacy. As more personal information is gathered and stored at breathtaking speed, corporate America is confronted with the ethical and practical issues of how to handle the information in its...
Pharmacopolitics
Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will supersede national medical practices and result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing...
Insuring National Health Care
The Canadian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Taylor gives a brief history, geared specifically to an American audience, of the evolution of the Canadian national health insurance system from the 1940s to the late 1980s. He describes the two Canadian programs -- hospital insurance and medical insurance -- and discusses the major changes in the...
When We Were Free to Be
Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
If you grew up in the era of mood rings and lava lamps, you probably remember Free to Be . . . You and Me--the groundbreaking children's record, book, and television special that debuted in 1972. Conceived by actress and producer Marlo Thomas and promoted by Ms. magazine, it captured the spirit of...
Farm Fresh Georgia
The Go-To Guide to Great Farmers' Markets, Farm Stands, Farms, U-Picks, Kids' Activities, Lodging, Dining, Dairies, Festivals, Choose-and-Cut Christmas Trees, Vineyards and Wineries, and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The first guidebook of its kind for the Peach State, Farm Fresh Georgia leads food lovers, families, locals, and tourists on a lively tour of almost 400 farms and farm-related attractions, all open to the public and visited by travel writer Jodi Helmer. Here are irresistible opportunities to find...
Schools in Transition
Community Experiences in Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This volume is of great practical value for it is a series of case studies of communities that have made the change-over from biracial public schools to integrated systems. The experience of these communities offers the best available guide to the solution of problems that will face southern communities.
Originally...
Creating Consumers
Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists...
Hot Peppers
The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and capsicum (as hot peppers are known botanically) thrive in the region's salty, oil-rich soil like nowhere else. At once an entertaining...
Consuming Japan
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as...